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The Attention Web: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

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In their 2001 book, The Attention Economy , social scholars Thomas Davenport and John Beck proposed that in today’s information-flooded world, the most scarce resource does not involve ideas, money or talent. with target audiences remains the most effective means of gaining and maintaining engagement.

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How WebMD Has Changed B2B Marketing Forever

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Prospective customers now turn to their personal networks and publicly available information — via digital and social media channels—to self-diagnose their problems and to self-prescribe their own solutions. does not guarantee marketplace attention.

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The Road to Hedge Fund Transparency: Marketing Essentials and Potential Pitfalls

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If a hedge fund is unwilling to provide on its website essential information related to its capabilities and credibility, then the firm is not really serious about market communication. Thought leadership – which is overused marketing jargon – is a strategy that leverages knowledge and ideas to engage target audiences.

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Hedge Fund Marketing: From Oxymoron to Best Practices

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Peppercom’s research shows that: Nearly all of the largest funds have a website, but most of those websites have no marketing value, and consist of little more than a logo and contact information. Very few funds have Twitter accounts. Hold off on Twitter and other social media sites. Create a bona fide website, not a proxy.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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But if you are unable or unwilling to generate meaningful content on a consistent basis (at least twice a month), or to merchandise your blog content properly (which means taking specific steps to promote the content with target audiences), then do not start a blog. Forget Facebook, Twitter and Google+. It’s a brand liability.

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Death by Content: How Press Release Abuse Killed Public Relations

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And its sole purpose was to provide the press with information likely to be of interest to the public; containing what journalists still call “news value.”. Because press releases are now considered sales collateral by their target audiences, “media relations” for all companies will be managed by the marketing department.

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Preserving Brand Equity in a Corporate Turnaround

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While financial and legal considerations will always be the primary focus, a tangible sophistication gap has long existed between workout arrangement skills, compared with what’s required to preserve a company’s goodwill among internal and external audiences during a corporate restructuring. Tailor Core Messaging for Each Audience.